Tracts written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire ; the first entituled, Jani Anglorvm facies altera, rendred into English, with large notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. ; the second, England's epinomis ; the third, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdictions of testaments ; the fourth, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods ; the three last never before extant.

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Tracts written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire ; the first entituled, Jani Anglorvm facies altera, rendred into English, with large notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. ; the second, England's epinomis ; the third, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdictions of testaments ; the fourth, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods ; the three last never before extant.
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Selden, John, 1584-1654.
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London :: Printed for Thomas Basset ... and Richard Chiswell ...,
MDCLXXXIII [1683]
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Law -- England -- History and criticism.
Probate law and practice -- England.
Ecclesiastical law -- England.
Inheritance and succession -- England.
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"Tracts written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire ; the first entituled, Jani Anglorvm facies altera, rendred into English, with large notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. ; the second, England's epinomis ; the third, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdictions of testaments ; the fourth, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods ; the three last never before extant." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59100.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025.

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A Brief CHRONOLOGY TO Attend and Assist THE HISTORY.

In the Year of the WORLD. 
1910.Samothes, if there ever were such a man, bears rule.
2805.Brutus makes a descent, (that is, lands with his Trojans) in Cornwall or Devonshire.
3516.Dunvallo Molmutius swayes the Scepter.
3627.Martia, Dowager of King Quintilen, is Queen Regent during the Minority of her Son Sisillius the First.

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3942.Caius Julius Caesar arrives at Deal on the Sea-Coast of Kent, and
* 1.1Territa quaesitis ostendis terga Britannis,
that is,
Having inquiry made, After the Britans bold, He turn'd his back, 'tis said, His courage would not hold:
and was the first that discover'd Britanny to the Romans.

In the Year of CHRIST. 
44.Claudius Caesar Emperour sends over Aulus Plau∣tius with an Army as his Lieutenant General, and by degrees reduceth the Countrey into the form of a Roman Province.
52.A Colony of Veterans or old Roman Souldiers is sent down to Maldon in Essex.
86.Britanny is subdued or brought under the yoke by the Conduct of Junius Agricola, in the time of Domitian the Emperour.
183.Lucius or King Lucy was the first Christian King. Forasmuch as he was of the same standing with Pope Eleutherius and the Emperour Commodus. Whence it appears, that Beda makes others mi∣stake, and is himself mistaken in his wrong ac∣count of time in this affair.
428.The Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Danes, Frisons, or Friselanders arrive here from Germany, Taurus and Felix then Consuls, in the one and twentieth year of Theodosius the younger. The common or ordinary account of Writers sets it down the four hundred forty ninth year: but that great man both for Authority and Judgement William Cam∣den Clarenceaux King at Arms hath, upon the cre∣dit of ancient Records, closed this Epoch or Date of time within that term of years, which I have set in the Margin.
561.King Ethelbert the First King of the English Saxons, who profest Christianity.
800.King Egbert.

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872.King Alured or Alfred.
959.King Edgar.
1017.Canute or King Knute the Dane.
1036.Harold, eldest Son to King Knute, called for his swiftness Harefoot.
1042.Edward the Confessor, after whom Harold Son to Godwin Earl of Kent usurp't the Throne, where he continued only nine Months.
1066.William Duke of Normandy, after a Battel fought upon the Plain near Hastings, got the Dominion or Soveraignty of the British Island.
1088.William Rufus, second Son of the Conquerour.
1100.Henry the First, younger Brother to Rufus.
1135.King Stephen, Count of Blois in France, Nephew to Henry by his Sister Adela.
1153.Henry the Second, Grand-child to Henry the First by his Daughter Mawd the Empress, and Jeoffrey Count of Angers in France.

FINIS.

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